Australian W3C Office

"The future of web standards, HTML5, XHTML and semantic technologies"

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) in partnership with CSIRO, NICTA and W3C Australia bring you a series of talks by two international experts, Ivan Herman and Mike(tm) Smith, who will be touring the east coast of Australia in May sharing the latest developments in web standards. Join them to find out more about how these technologies will be transforming the web and the impact on your work and business.

The presentations will focus on two types of issues, public interest and research. The public interest presentations are targeted at developers, designers and managers of web technologies. They serve as an introduction and provide some deeper insights into W3C technologies.

The research presentations are focused on giving researchers or early adopters of technology a deep dive into technologies. Here a state of the art in semantic technologies and the new HTML 5 validator will be discussed.

No RSVP required

DATES

Brisbane
Tuesday 12 May
Research Presentation - 1:00pm - 3:30pm Auditorium, Queensland Bioscience Precinct, Carmody Road, University of Queensland, St Lucia
Public Interest Presentation - 6:30pm for 7:00pm start at Southbank Institute of Technology, room C1206

Sydney
Wednesday 13 May
Public Interest Presentation - 6:30pm for 7:00pm start at The Australian Museum, 6 College Street, Sydney (enter via William Street entrance)

Canberra
Friday 15 May
Research Presentation - 10:00am - 12:30pm at ANU, room S206 (The CSIRO side of the Department of Computer Science building, Building 108)
2:30pm - 4:30pm at Bunker Theatre, Department of Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts, John Gorton Building, King Edward Terrace, Parkes

Hobart
Monday 18 May
Research Presentation - 10:00am - 12:30pm at CSIRO auditorium
Tuesday 19 May
Public Interest Presentation - 5:00pm at the UTAS Main Theatre

Melbourne
Wednesday 20 May
Public Interest Presentation - 6:30pm for 7:00pm start at Loop Bar - 23 Meyers Place, Melbourne CBD

 

More about the speakers

Ivan Herman graduated as mathematician at the Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest, Hungary, in 1979. Ivan joined the W3C Team as Head of W3C Offices in January 2001 while maintaining his position at Centre for Mathematices and Computer Sciences. He served as Head pof Offices until June 2006, when he was asked to take the Semantic Web Activity Lead position, which is now his principle work at W3c. Since autumn 2007 Ivan is also a member of SWSA (Semantic Web Scirnce Association), the committee responsible for the International Semantic Web Conferences series. More details on http://www.w3.org/people/ivan or http://www.ivan-herman.net. Click here to view Ivan's presentation slides.

Michael(tm) Smith joined the W3C in 2007 as part the W3C Mobile Web Initiative. He's now involved with work on standards closely related to browsing technologies; in particular, the phenomenon known as HTML5, as well as other standards related to APIs for Web applications. He's been based in Tokyo since 2001. Prior to joining the W3C, he worked forOpera Software, and prior to that, for Openwave Systems — most of that time involved with design, development, testing, and deployment of software for mobile operators.

 

For more information, you can contact:

Amit Parashar
CSIRO ICT Centre
Post: GPO Box 664, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia
Office: Building 108, North Road, Australian National University, Acton, Canberra
Telephone: +61 2 6216 7062
Fax: +61 2 6126 7111

Email: w3c-australia@w3.org